540 private quotes tagged sad

“Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.” — Arthur Wellesley

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“Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.” — Ann Richards

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“With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.” — Tina Yothers

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“Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.” — Jay Inslee

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“I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.” — Stella McCartney

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“I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.” — Andrew Lloyd Webber

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“Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.” — Germaine Greer

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“I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.” — Mikhail Kalashnikov

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“I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.” — Shelby Lynne

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“I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.” — Li Na

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“Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.” — Eric Holder

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“It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.” — Eric Holder

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“It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.” — Stephenie Meyer

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“It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.” — Sylvia Browne

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“To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.” — Emma Goldman

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“What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.” — Alice Englert

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“Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.” — Helen Clark

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“Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.” — St. Vincent

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“You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.” — Hope Davis

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“Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.” — Dylan McDermott

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“There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.” — Irvine Welsh

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“You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.” — Rick Danko

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“Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.” — Jennifer Weiner

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“I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.” — Christine Baranski

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“What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.” — Boy George

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